30 Film Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie
Recently, we looked at 30 filmmakers who made only one well-reviewed movie over their entire careers, and then 25 great directors who missed out on perfection by just one film. But there is an even more elite group of film directors who have received critical acclaim for every single film they ever directed. In other words, they've never received anything but a green Metascore for one of their features.
How many of those directors can you guess? Check them all out in the gallery above. Note that we only looked at directors who have made at least five films since 1980.
True, his first and most recent films are only barely in the green. But the Omaha, Nebraska native has received nothing but acclaim for his other five directorial efforts, giving him a career Metascore average of 80. (His record as a screenwriter is a bit less perfect, given that he has an Adam Sandler film and the worst Jurassic Park movie among his credits.)
His next film could be a based-on-a-true-story legal drama titled The Burial, which would be only his second directorial effort for which he didn't also write the screenplay. (The other is Nebraska.)
The full filmography (as director):
64 Citizen Ruth (1996)
83 Election (1999)
85 About Schmidt (2002)
94 Sideways (2004)
84 The Descendants (2011)
86 Nebraska (2013)
63 Downsizing (2017)